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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divergent were the views on relief expressed by President Hoover (by radio) and New York's Governor Roosevelt (in person) last week when they both participated in a memorial service to Red Cross Founder Clara Barton at Dansville, N. Y. The President called the Red Cross ''a monument to individual and local initiative." The Governor said: "We understand today that disaster and catastrophe are not limited to suffering caused by fire and flood. If the teachings of Clara Barton were right, these same teachings must apply to the distress and suffering stalking in our midst today...
...most adroit politicians of the shirt-sleeved South, Governor Sterling has worked long and hard to reach his present eminence. In his home city of Houston he made a reputation as a port developer, a Y. M. C. A. benefactor and the able publisher of the Post-Dispatch. In 1927 Governor Dan Moody named him chairman of the State Highway Commission. He did a good job reorganizing this politically mired department. He built new highways and spread his name & fame up and down every mile of them. It was on the strength of this road work that he was nominated...
...watched groups of politicians moving about the lobby, observed that the man they clustered about was William H. Johnson, editor of the Wheeling Register. A few months later Norman Edward Mack, just 21, a traveling salesman no longer, borrowed $2,500, established a Sunday Times in Buffalo, N. Y. and set out to become a political power himself. Four years later he borrowed some more money and made the Times a daily, so that he would not have to wait six days to answer hostile editorials printed in other Buffalo papers on Monday. By 1888 the Times's vigorous...
...might have held it longer had he not hurt himself, so seriously that he was compelled to retire, by colliding with his partner during a doubles match. The injury was still noticeable, in the form of a slight limp, when Richard Dudley Sears went to Forest Hills. N. Y. last week to attend a Golden Jubilee Ceremony, the 50th U. S. Lawn Tennis Championship...
...Twenty Grand, 3-year-old race horse owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney: the Saratoga Cup, at Saratoga Springs, N. Y., beating Willis Sharpe Kilmer's Sun Beau, world's record money-winner ($356,044) by eight lengths. Sir Ashley† by 81 Mate, who has beaten Twenty Grand in two out of three starts this year, was withdrawn a week before the race with a deep cut in his left hind...